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Facilitating Evidence and Outcome Based Policy Planning and Implementation in Africa

Facilitating Evidence and Outcome Based Policy Planning and Implementation in Africa

The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) aims to put African countries on a path to higher and sustained economic growth through agriculture-led development. As more African countries align their agricultural strategies with the CAADP agenda and prepare agricultural investment plans as part of the CAADP country roundtable process, the demand for analytical services and capacities is expected to rise significantly and rapidly. In particular, there will be greater need to carry out studies to establish high quality indicator baselines to measure and track implementation and outcome targets. Additionally, national and regional dialogue and review processes, which are critical to improving policy efficiency and outcomes, will require a steady stream of targeted information and knowledge products as well as technical capacities.

Therefore, the primary objective of IFPRI’s support to the CAADP implementation process under phase 2 is to help ensure sufficient capacities at country and regional levels that continue to meet the analytical and knowledge needs of the CAADP agenda for evidence and outcome based agricultural policy planning and implementation. This work extends the technical and analytical support that IFPRI provided under phase 1 to the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Secretariat and leading African regional economic communities (RECs) to help accelerate the implementation of the CAADP agenda at the country and regional levels.

The first objective of the program is to consolidate the [Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support Systems (ReSAKSS). ReSAKSS and its network of 3 regional nodes in East and Central Africa (ECA), Southern Africa (SA), and West Africa (WA) were established during the first phase of IFPRI’s support to CAADP to provide policy-relevant analyses, data, and tools in order to improve policymaking and inform benchmarking and review processes associated with CAADP implementation. Under the current phase 2, IFPRI will continue the development of ReSAKSS into a leading one-stop shop for strategic and operational information for regional economic communities (RECs) and their member states and prepare the transition of the 3 regional nodes for take-over by local institutions in 4-5 years.

The second objective is to establish an African Growth and Development Policy (AGRODEP) Modeling Consortium. The specific objective of AGRODEP is to build upon an emerging critical mass of local modelers and the growing number of high quality data sets to create a world-class modeling community in Africa. The Consortium is co-sponsored by the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA), Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), and West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF/WECARD). Specifically, AGRODEP will create a modeling infrastructure to give access to state of the art methodologies and tools and establish a database to make use of existing data sources and set up a clearing house mechanism to ensure the availability of high quality data for strategic analysis.

Publications

The main objective of this report is to identify interventions that work and recommend options for policies and programs to eliminate hunger and malnutrition in all its forms. The report begins with a review of the African and global policy agenda,…

The 2016 Global Hunger Index Africa Edition is produced by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Concern Worldwide, and Welthungerhilfe in conjunction with NEPAD. The GHI Africa Edition is based on data taken from the 2016 Global…

Blogs

Ten years after its establishment, the IFPRI-facilitated Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) in Africa serves as a vital support to the implementation of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) —a growth-oriented agricultural development agenda.

Since its inception in 2010, AGRODEP (African Growth and Development Policy Modeling Consortium) has aimed to strengthen the capacity and reach of African researchers. The Consortium enables African researchers to become part of a large network of…

Policy Research Conference hosted by IFPRI and University of Central Asia The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the University of Central Asia will host a Research Conference on Agricultural Policy and Food Security in Central…